spacesurfer
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by spacesurfer
-
-
On black friday, i bought a Western Digital 1.5 TB USB/Firewire 400/800/eSATA HDD for $120 USD and got a gift certificate of $10. I didn't have eSATA ports so I bought an eSATA card for $20 - $10 GC = $10. I didn't have an eSATA cable so I bought that for $10.
I got it hooked up and everything working fine. Speed is amazing. However, since the documentation was on the HDD itself as a PDF, I didn't realize that when using eSATA, I'm missing out on two features: hot-swappability and power management.
I thought eSATA was touted for hot-swappability but according to WD documentation, I have to shut down computer before turning off/removing drive. I do have AHCI enabled but the icon for the drive does not appear in the "remove hardware".
Secondly, when using USB or Firewire, documentation says the drive will put itself to sleep when not in use and will power up and down with the computer powering up and down. Not with eSATA - says that's not available for eSATA (although my use for 1 day it does seem to power off when I hibernate or turn off computer. i don't know what's correct.)
0 -
humm, anyone tried to enable aero on unsupported card?
original poster, did you try before you posted?
0 -
download microsoft base security analyzer. you'll have to search for it. it's a free tool by MS, now supporting windows 7. it'll tell you what's missing after it scans your system.
It also gives you links to download the security update so you can download them and save them on your hdd.
0 -
You got your search criteria correct? I'm showing 5 critical and 1 important thus far.
0 -
Office 2003 latest SP is SP3. It includes all updates including SP1 and SP2.
Latest for 2007 is SP2.
download service packs here: http://support.microsoft.com/sp
for latest updates after a SP, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx. Then in the search criteria, choose office version and then choose the latest SP you have installed and it will only give you updates post the SP.
0 -
You can't do with just the xml. The xml only points to VBA code (i.e. macros) or visual c++. xml does not and cannot run commands on its own.
You will have to use macros. Just record the macro for what you're trying to do. Save the final file as .dotm for the macro-enabled template. It doesn't matter what you're macro settings are. As long as normal.dotm is macro-enabled, you shouldn't have problems.
0 -
The Normal.dot itself is where the toolbar customizations are saved. Each time you change something about toolbars, backup Normal.dot.
First, copy the customized normal.dot. Then change the toolbars around. then backup the new normal.dot and there you have it.
0 -
Hi iamtheky,
I tried the "open with" as you suggested and i am getting the following error message..."Windows cannot find filename. Make sure you type the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file click the start button and then click search."
So it appears that the file association is corrupt. Is there a solution or a work around for this?
Many thanks,
Sarah
Yes, the best solution is to open any Office application. Click on Help and then "Detect and Repair". That will repair the corrupt registry entries for file associations.
You may be asked for your install CD but I think not.
0 -
jaclaz,
I believe 1 Jan 1900 and and 1 Jan 1904 have special significance in Win XP and MS Applications as start dates for counting days but I have never heard of any similar significance for 1905. I can't relate this particular year to anything I know of in MS software and can't guess why 1905 pops up.
- Novice
No, no!! 19.04.01 is not Jan 1 1904. Nor is it in format yyyymmdd. Here yyyy would give you a 4 digit year, however, you are only seeing two digits for mm, dd, and yy, and are confusing the numbers. 19.01.04 is actually April 19, 2001 when I type it in my computer (which is ddmmyy).
I, however, cannot reproduce your problem because I don't have the format 19.04.01. My formats are with "/" as in 4/19/01, which is April 19, 2001. You need to include a screenshot so we see what you see.
0 -
It seems like the new virtual pc for windows 7 for enabling the windows xp mode is for windows 7 only.
What I wanted to know is, can I install my own virtual machines or will this version of virtual pc only runs the XP for the XP mode.
I'm not interested in the XP mode as I am in running my own virtual machines.
Also, if I do install the XP mode virtual machine, can I actually run it like a normal virtual pc XP install or is it only for XP mode applications?
Thanks.
0 -
You may have some rogue system files in those locations. It seems that if you have a dual boot, it will back up both so both can be restored. You might have your system files in the other partition. Seems to me that's expected behaviour. It detects where your system files are.
What if you backed up just the d: and not c: where your boot files are? You're still screwed then. If you want to avoid, you prolly have to use another program.
0 -
I just checked the backup options on Win7 x64. To make a system image, the only option that seems available is to image your ENTIRE drive, not just the Win 7 partition! I have a 640gb drive with a 40gb system partition and about 300gb of games/music on another partition which I do not want backed up but seems I would be forced to if I use the windows image backup. Incredible!
Oh well, thankfully 3rd party apps offer logical, practical options, MS = fail on simple backup options.
What version of 7 are you using?
I have created several backups of just ONE partition of my HDD. No problems here.
0 -
I don't think you can do that in Excel. Access is probably better suited for that.
Your numbers data in sheet 4 is not attached to the names in sheet 4, but your names in sheet 4 are attached to those in sheet 1. hence, you see that names are sorted but columns are not.
normally, when you sort, you also need to select all related to columns within the sheet. this doesn't work across sheets.
0 -
I know nothing about JavaScript except how to use it in my html and a little bit about changing the variables. I have some Javascript on my math webpage that converts LaTex code to an image tag, which is sent to codecogs and it renders the image of the equations and is downloaded, allowing anyone to see equations without any plugin.
There are two things i wanted modified in this script (it's a freeware under GNU license). first, the latex code allows 3 colors. i wanted an easy way to specify colors in the <span> tag.
for example, to make this equation red: <span>$\frac{a}{b}$</span>, i would have to write <span>${\color{red}\frac{a}{b}}$. Instead, I would like <span class="red">$\frac{a}{b}$</span> (or id="red" or whatever works), so that I can use CSS.
And two, the renderer allows higher dpi for images rendered. See the codebox below where it says 100dpi. I can specify 120, 150 dpi for better quality images. Specifying higher dpi obviously gives higher quality image and a bigger image. I want to be able to specify higher quality and adjust the size of the image. Is there a way I can do that with variables and again in the <span> tag? Like for example: <span class="red" id="150dpi" height="50px">$\frac{a}{b}$</span>?
Thanks in advance.
function renderlatex() {
var eqn = window.document.getElementsByTagName("span");
for (var i=0; i<eqn.length; i++) {
html=eqn[i].innerHTML;
html=html.replace(/(^\$|[^\\]\$)(.*?[^\\])\$/g," <img align=\"absmiddle\" src=\"http://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?\\100dpi $2\" alt=\"$2\" title=\"$2\" border=\"0\" class=\"latex\" /> ");
// html=html.replace(/(^\\|[^\\]\\)\[(.*?[^\\])\\\]/g," <div class=\"latex\"><img src=\"http://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?$2\" alt=\"$2\" title=\"$2\" border=\"0\" /></div> ");
html=html.replace(/(^\\|[^\\]\\)\[(.*?[^\\])\\\]/g," <br/><img src=\"http://latex.codecogs.com/png.latex?\\100dpi $2\" alt=\"$2\" title=\"$2\" border=\"0\" /><br/> ");
html=html.replace(/\\\$/g,"\$");
html=html.replace(/\\\\(\[|\])/g,"$1");
eqn[i].innerHTML = html;
}
}
renderlatex();0 -
they don't. they suck. enough said.
(I'm adding more pages - on Mathematics. It's a slow process because of the equations and drawings.)
0 -
The reason I had frames was for the right side navigation menu. It was the same for all sites so I didn't want to put the same code on every page; and I wanted it fixed. I had trouble getting a fixed menu in IE, while it worked in Firefox.
What you saw is the latest version without the true frames. I got rid of the frames and placed an IFrame instead. That was a better solution, although now it's not fixed. It will be better for search engine indexing. (But I'm looking to host it on a domain rather than Charter.)
Also, I'm still learning HTML so it will take some time before for improvements. I just read about DIV blocks and I can probably use that instead of tables for my layout.
Thanks for visiting the site.
0 -
Hello, all. I've searched google for this issue but I'm having trouble with terminology. I don't know what to call it to search for it.
I have my webpages in frames. The left frame is just a menu and the right frame is the main content. Now, I want to prevent people opening the right frame by itself. Is there a script that will check if the frame is loaded by itself?
0 -
don't believe you can actually integrate sp's with 2007 like you can with 2003. yes, 2007 install is slower with sp's in the updates folder because it installs office, then installs the service pack(s) and update(s).
it's the same if you were to manually install it after installing 2007. there's no way around it.
0 -
what windows version do you have installed? did you do any updates?
can you do system restore?
0 -
I'm running Windows 7 RTM x64. After install, it automatically installed my hp laserjet 1320 PCL5 drivers. I want to use PCL6 drivers (all versions x64, x86) instead and I have them downloaded. For whatever reason, I'm not able to share the printer since my laptop (x86) can't find the drivers for the PCL5.
It worked fine in previous builds. I had the PCL6 driver installed and shared okay. However, after a fresh install of RTM, it refused to update the drivers to PCL5 saying the best driver is installed on your computer. I tried removing the printer, then reinstalling. I tried "have disk" method but says it's the incorrect version, but it's not an incorrect version - it's the same drivers that worked before.
How can I get these drivers to install?????
0 -
You cannot enable hibernation with a VHD install. Other than the not being able to calculate the WEI score, I think there is no other difference.
And yes, you can easily backup VHD, but did you look at how well it compresses? I haven't trying compressing it to see if it compresses. That might be a disadvantage. Otherwise, it's not really a system backup. Although you can recover your VHD, you still need to repair the bootsector and boot menus if it is damaged. But that should be a hassel.
0 -
Windows Firewall is good enough but people like to have an icon in systray so they try a lot of firewall software.
Perhaps it's good enough. But it's so darn difficult to even come close to configuring it. I have yet to figure out what it all means in the configuration. Not to mention that it's a workout trying to find the settings. It's really for IT pros and not the casual home user.
I use Comodo Firewall because I understand it. I actually have both Windows Firewall and Comodo active at same time. Never had a problem. (As a matter of fact, installing Comodo does not deactivate Windows Firewall so I just happen to run both.)
People say not to run two at same time but I can't find any concrete negative effects of running both.
0 -
I don't think it's possible. However, you're welcome to try it.
A possible method of making it boot would be to sysprep you're VPC Vista VHD install. However, you need a boot manager capable of booting VHD's and only Windows 7 is capable right now. Try replace bootmgr from Win 7 to Vista and see if that makes it capable. You'll have to add it to the boot menu, which is not too difficult and you can find instructions anywhere.
Also, if Vista is running slow on your VPC, then try giving is LESS memory; like go from 2 gb to 1 gb. It seems counterintuitive but that worked for me. It seems my host was being suffocated when I gave the guest more memory.
0 -
I prefer to let Windows 7 handle the defragmentation in background: Windows 7 Defragmentation.
0
SATA versus IDE
in Hard Drive and Removable Media
Posted
Darn! My samsung won't do lightscribe anymore. I can't figure out what's wrong. i get some crazy error that I can't recall but something about lightscribe printer does not exist. burning seems to work okay.
I've tried firmware updates, still no go.